Mr. John JARRED

John Southwell Jarred migrated from England to Australia with his wife and two children, arriving in South Australia July 1846 aboard the ship Canton. He was born in 1819 Drove-End, Gedney, Lincolnshire, England, UK the 2nd son and 3rd child to small farmers Robert William Jarred and Elizabeth Edythe (Edy) Southwell who farmed 11 acres in the area. Robert & Edy appear to be Weslyan Methodists as John was baptised twice - once at 3 days old in the Wesleyan Chapel, Wisbech, Cambridgeshire, and another "official" baptism at 12 months old at St. Mary Magdalen Ch, Gedney, Lincolnshire. This is interesting, as compared to his later arriving siblings, John remained strictly practicing and went on to be an influential figure in the church around the Willunga plains and even donated land for a Methodist Church at Gulnare, Mid North S.A. On the strength of this conviction, he even dropped and "R" from the spelling of his surname changing it to Jared to be more aligned to the biblical name. His children were baptised with this spelling. He married Jane Martin (b 9 Jan 1818, Norfolk, England, UK) in Gedney, Lincs. on the 12 May 1841 and they had two children, Clarissa (b 5 Sept 1842) and John William (bap. June 1845) It is rumored that they lived in a tent on the banks of the Torrens river at the new suburb of Hindmarsh for quite a while until they settled on the plains near Willunga leasing various sections to farm across to Aldinga. Daughters Mary Ann (b1847), Susan Ann (b1849), Eliza (b1851), Emma Jane (b1853) and Rachel Jared (b1856) were all born whilst farming those section on the Willunga plains. During this time Johns siblings Robert, Isaiah, Edward Jarred and Susannah (with husband William Barnes) had all emigrated to South Australia, each brother also leasing sections around the Willunga plains. Unfortunately sister Jane's daughter, Sarah Ann Barnes, accidentally drowned near Glenelg only months after arrival, and it seems Susannah never recovered from it, dying from "brain contusion' on her deceased daughters next birthday. John Southwell Jared then adopted and raised her son, James Jarred, until he eventually married and migrated to pioneer the north western parts of Victoria. In 1862 John bought the 80 acre section 322 Hd Willunga, adjoining the Onkaparinga river at Port Noarlunga and built a stone house for the family. This he called Clear farm, later changed to Pingle Farm by his then occupying son John William Jared. John & son progressively expanded this farm buying the surrounding sections 323, 326 and 327 and profited well by growing wheat and breeding award winning Merino sheep. John & Jane died very close together in January 1877 and Jane in that May, and are buried together at the Willunga Methodist church cemetery (now Uniting church). Their daughters married various other pioneering families of the district like the Teakles, Miller, Tillbrook, Hoeper & Scarborough. John William married Emily Pomeroy, and later after her death, married her sister Hannah Pomeroy. They and the neighbouring Teakles purchased newly available farm land land at Gulnare, SA and populated the mid north with Jareds, before John William moved back down to Pt Noarlunga to take over his deceased fathers farm. Son John William Jared added sections to this farm and became a speculator/developer to found the villages of Seaford (now Pt Noarlunga south), Caston (now Pt Noarlunga Downs) New Glenelg and a smattering of developments around Unley and Parkside. The Jareds original homestead ruins still exist, they and the land to the river is now declared part of the Onkaparinga National Park and the southern sections to Jared road, have been subdivided to form part of the new suburb, Seaford Meadows.